SUSPENSE


Meaning of SUSPENSE in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

keep...in suspense

Don’t keep us in suspense any longer!

The suspense is killing me

What happened next? The suspense is killing me .

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

romantic

Not always easy to categorize, her books combine gothic and romantic suspense elements often with historical settings.

A contemporary story of mystery and romantic suspense of a woman who returns home to die and ends up learning to love.

Her most recent books have been more in the romantic suspense vein than the gothic.

A psychologically oriented tale of romantic suspense .

Compare the romantic suspense novels of Mary Stewart with the international espionage tales of Ian Fleming.

■ NOUN

novel

It is the suspense novel , a type more easily recognised than defined.

If this notion suits you temperamentally, then try producing this sort of suspense novel .

Compare the romantic suspense novels of Mary Stewart with the international espionage tales of Ian Fleming.

Romantic suspense novels are escape novels.

story

The suspense story of the Napoleonic Monkey was familiar, of course.

Hot or not: Good cast, good creative team; a suspense story about political corruption always seems to be topical.

Similarly, Mary Stewart produces suspense stories with equally strong mystery and romance plotlines.

■ VERB

bear

There was a silence, and, unable to bear the suspense any longer, she raised her eyes.

I could not bear suspense of any kind.

Unable to bear the suspense , she hurried down into the hall.

When I could bear the suspense no longer, I posed the final, and most significant question to her.

I must have waited several minutes, I should have known but I couldn't bear the suspense .

keep

So let's not keep you in suspense and join Katie prior to her departure from a surprising location for international flight.

The play is constructed in such a way as to keep the audience in suspense until the very end.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

It is a classic story of love and suspense .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A story of love and suspense set in the South Seas.

After 2 days' paddling and considerable suspense at last we reached the three corner point with Czechoslovakia/Hungary.

At least it would end the awful suspense .

It is the suspense novel, a type more easily recognised than defined.

Sovereignty is never held in suspense .

The suspense is cut through when he walks out on them.

The country was tense with suspense .

The play is constructed in such a way as to keep the audience in suspense until the very end.

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